The problem with the plug and play control is that only has DDG! Final on it, which is a cool game but it's not as good as the arcade entries (playing for score in DDG 1~3 is better than farming points to unlock stuff in Final imo).

Nope, it doesn't have a proper scoring system, no score boards, and there's no way to check any of your records.

Here's the basic system of the game quoted from the guide on gamefaqs:

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Densha de GO! Final presents four routes: Yamanote Line, Chuo Line, Osaka Loop Line and Tokaido Line. Each line has several "diagrams", or sections of line to complete with a specific train and at a specific time of day. Many are locked and need to be unlocked or bought with credits obtained from completing diagrams. One of the biggest new features of Final is the "Chain" system. By passing checkpoints, completing certain actions and stopping correctlywithout committing errors, your chain grows ever longer. The longer the chain, the more points are multiplied by.

And that's it, the game lost most of it's essence (and difficulty) when Taito stopped producing them with an arcade philosophy in mind.

Gathering more Credit Points by doing perfect runs without dropping your chains can be fun tho, but the game gets boring as soon as you unlock all of it's contents.

Some DDG newsDDG Plug & Play Promotion Video basically showing how it works. I don't know what they to this game, but the textures looks like crap and framerate is awful compared to the ps2 and pc versions.

I love that compilation movie. Too bad they missed all the mobile games, some of them were made by G-Rev. Guess they are lost forever ;(

A youtube user has been uploading videos of DDG!! captured direcly from the arcade. The amount of details in that game is impressive, now I get why they only did a short section of the Yamanote line, doing a full-length game with that quality would be expensive as hell.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... YfF48e0F8e

xxx1993 wrote:

Which of the games feature Tetsu-chan? I got interested in the series after seeing her in Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders.

She is in almost all of them. DDG 1, 2, 3, Nagoya Tetsudou Hen, professional 1, 2 and Gambare Untenshi (this one is arcade exclusive, the "port" has a different set of waifus). Final and the Shinkansen game features her only on the beginner mode.

Geez, this is hard Only got a bronze star on the first line in DG2, and that's with a continue halfway through.Trying to reach the end of the first Komachi-line (second level) but I always run out of time in the same spot (one of the pass by stations near the end) but with enough speed to see the station when the game stops. I was running pretty well during one run, no major minus points (although no well-timed station flybys either) until the game decided to suddenly throw a 70km/h speed limit on me while I was above 100 and ended up with the ATS system going off and no way I could reach the station from a stand-still.

I'm going to have to put in some time and effort to improve, and it looks so easy when other do it

I know the feeling, the Komachi route has the hardest flow to learn in the series. Took me an entire week to learn the entire Akitashinkansen line (1st and 2nd Komachi sections together) which requires driving almost 30 mins without making major mistakes, but doing the shinkansen coupling bonus at the end of it worth all the suffering.

When playing Express lines, reaching 2 or 3 consecutive stations/checkpoints 3 secs earlier will get you a yellow light. If you pass them even earlier (5secs~), you get even tougher penalties (double yellow or red light). Best thing to do is trying to follow the speedflow of each section, and calculate the remaining meters left and the speed required to reach the stations in time (i.e. you can travel 1000mts in 1 min if you drive at 60kmph, or 1000mts in 30 at 120kmph).

You mean accelerating and braking at the same time? you can't, the train just simply brakes (and a message will appear at the bottom of the screen saying you're doing something wrong).

What this guy do is controlling the speed when arriving a station using only the brake lever. You can see he brakes till reaching a minimum speed and releases the brake, then starts tapping it to stop slowly. Even if the train goes at 5kmph, it will keep moving until losing all the residual speed.

You can use the brake at full force (8) if you go at 40kmph or higher, and brake from 1 to 7 if you go below that speed (you will recieve a penalty if do it harder than that).